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Job Description
About this Position:
Job Title: AWS Solutions Architect
Responsibilities:
- Design scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS architectures, including multi-account, multi-region, and DR strategies.
- Develop architecture diagrams, migration roadmaps, hybrid connectivity designs, and IaC templates.Implement AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, networking, and security services.
- Configure VPCs, routing, Direct Connect/VPN, Transit Gateway, load balancers, and auto-scaling.
- Implement IAM, security controls, logging/monitoring, backup, DR, and compliance configurations.
- Design and deploy enterprise-scale API Gateway solutions with authentication, throttling, caching, logging, and lifecycle governance.
- Build and manage EKS clusters, networking, service mesh, autoscaling, GitOps, deployments, storage, and container security.
- Implement cloud security best practices including GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, Macie, KMS, WAF, and Shield.
- Conduct security assessments, audits, vulnerability remediation, encryption, IAM least-privilege, and incident response.
- Gather business requirements, document technical specifications, SLAs, compliance needs, and produce architecture decisions.
- Provide AWS operations support: monitoring, incident/problem management, cost optimization, patching, performance tuning, and reporting.
- Deliver knowledge transfer through documentation, training, runbooks, and operational guides.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- Seven (7) years of applying Enterprise Architecture principles. At least five (5) years of that experience must be in a lead capacity.
- Seven (7) years of expert level IT experience with five (5) years in AWS cloud architectures supporting multi- account AWS Organizations environments.
- Five (5) years of expert level experience in assessing, architecting, implementing, supporting multiple enterprise hybrid cloud application migrations using industry best practice
- processes, and supporting AWS technologies (e.g., Network, Security, Servers, Storage, Backup, and Disaster Recovery).
- Five (5) years of expert level experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, including HashiCorp Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Five (5) years of expert level experience with designing and implementing enterprise API Gateway architectures.
- Five (5) years of expert level experience with architecting and supporting Kubernetes/EKS environments.
- Five (5) years of expert level experience providing executive level presentations, reports, diagrams, and analysis.
- Possession of an AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification: Professional (required)*
- Possession of a bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field.* Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Seven (7) years of experience leading enterprise-wide modernization or transformation initiatives impacting multiple programs, departments, or business domains.
- Seven (7) years of experience conducting AWS Well-Architected Reviews and implementing remediation or optimization recommendations.
- Seven (7) or more years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes. At least five (5) years of that experience must be in a lead capacity.
- Seven (7) years of Experience designing reusable IaC modules, blueprints, or architecture patterns for enterprise deployment (Terraform modules, CloudFormation nested stacks, CDK constructs).
- Experience implementing enterprise API lifecycle management, including versioning standards, developer onboarding, governance policies, and API documentation frameworks.
- Possession of a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification or equivalent*
- Possession of an AWS Certified Security certification: Specialty*
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